Money over man versus caring and compassion? Challenges for today's organizations and their leaders

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 955-960

  Peus, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compassion; Positive deviance; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052876654     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.751     Document Type: Note

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